The purpose of this study is to find out from a didactic perspective, how traditional gender roles emerge in the classroom and the conceptions of traditional gender roles. This is explored from a student’s perspective. The theoretical frame of this study is gender system, which consists of the principles of separation and hierarchy. The survey is conducted in two classes in third grade. This study answers following questions: How do traditional gender roles appear in the classroom from a student´s perspective? Which conception exist about traditional gender roles from a student's perspective? The study is based on observations and interviews, which is analysed of the gender system theory and the theoretical concept traditional gender roles. The results of this study show that the students' behavior in the classroom and their thinking are mostly based on the traditional gender roles, which is characterized mostly by the principles of separation and hierarchy.  However, some situations and statements show a change, in which the principles of separation and hierarchy are questioned. The individual situations reflect that the transfer of the gender contract is minimized from one generation to another.

This study attempts to examine how gender roles appear in the adaption of Margaret Atwood’s published book, The Handmaid’s Tale TV series, which introduces the fictional and dystopian society Gilead, where the infertility rates decreased as the result of climate change. This study focuses on the first, second and third seasons of the TV series from 2017-19. A qualitative method was used to study how groups of males and females are portrayed in a hierarchy. This study examines how males and females are represented in The Handmaid’s Tale through a content analysis with multimodal critical discourse analysis as a method, completed with gender system theory and feminist standpoint theory.  In the study, we focused on four groups of females and two groups of males that were included in an obvious ranking in the hierarchy of Gilead. All of the groups were analyzed separately to observe how their gender roles were represented in the TV series. Consequently, we compared the male groups to the female groups to examine the differences between their representation and ranking in the hierarchy in Gilead. The results of this study shows that males are dominant and females are submissive in Gilead, which confirms the gender theory used in this study. The low-ranking groups of females, such as the handmaids or the marthas also confirmed the existence of the feminist standpoint theory. It shows that the groups of males were placed in the highest ranking in the hierarchy in Gilead, even though some of the women seemed to be powerful, it was not enough to dominate all of the male groups in the hierarchy.

The purpose of this qualitative study was to contribute with increased knowledge about preschool teachers' use of gender perspectives in the work with the indoor learning environment. The research questions in the study concern to what extent and in what ways the preschool teachers describe that they use a gender perspective in the work with the preschool learning environment indoors, and what can be made visible in the preschool teachers' descriptions with the help of Hirdman's (1988, 2003) gender system theory. The selection of the study’s participants were preschool teachers, and the data collection method was semi-structured interviews that visualized the preschool teachers' work around gender perspectives. The result that has been produced from the nine interviews was, among other things, that the preschool teachers agree that the indoor learning environment should be designed to be accessible and suit all children according to their different needs, regardless of gender. We chose to use Hirdman's gender system theory where the preschool teachers' answers in the study have been analyzed based on the theoretical concepts of separation, hierarchies and gender contracts. A conclusion produced by the study was that there are both strategies and shortcomings in the work with gender in the learning environment, but that most of the preschool teachers use a gender perspective in different ways when working with the preschool's indoor learning environment. It was made clear in the gender analysis that the preschool teachers’ work with a gender perspective in the indoor learning environment to some extent takes place in accordance with Hirdman’s gender system theory. The theoretical concepts in the analysis show that there is separation in the preschool teachers’ work with gender-stereotypical materials, hierarchies where the preschool teachers choose to act more neutrally towards certain gender-stereotypical materials and that the gender contract is reinforced by the preschool teachers’ assumptions of what role they think the children want in roleplay. / Syftet med denna kvalitativa studie var att bidra med ökad kunskap om förskollärares användning av genusperspektiv i arbetet med lärmiljön inomhus. Forskningsfrågorna i studien handlar om i vilken utsträckning och på vilka sätt som förskollärarna beskriver att de använder genusperspektiv i arbetet med förskolans lärmiljö inomhus, samt vad som kan synliggöras i förskollärarnas beskrivningar med hjälp av Hirdmans (1988, 2003) genussystemteori. Urvalet av studiens deltagare var förskollärare och datainsamlingsmetoden var semistrukturerade intervjuer som synliggjorde förskollärarnas arbete kring genusperspektiv. Resultatet som har framställts från de nio intervjuerna var bland annat att förskollärarna är eniga om att lärmiljön inomhus ska utformas till att vara tillgänglig och passa alla barn efter deras olika behov, oberoende av kön. Vi valde att använda oss av Hirdmans genussystemteori där förskollärarnas svar i studien har analyserats utifrån de teoretiska begreppen isärhållande, hierarkier och genuskontrakt. En av studiens slutsatser var att det förekommer både strategier och brister i arbetet med genus i lärmiljön, men att de flesta förskollärarna trots allt använder sig av genusperspektiv på olika sätt när de arbetar med förskolans lärmiljö inomhus. Det tydliggjordes i genusanalysen att förskollärarnas arbete med genusperspektiv i lärmiljön inomhus till vissa delar sker i enlighet med Hirdmans genussystemteori. De teoretiska begreppen i analysen visar att det förekommer isärhållande i förskollärarnas arbete med könsstereotypa material, hierarkier där förskollärarna väljer att agera mer neutralt till vissa könsstereotypa material och att genuskontraktet förstärks av förskollärarnas antaganden av vilken roll de tror att barnen vill ha i leken.